Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Business Application Blueprints: Master SharePoint application development by building exciting SharePoint business solutions with this book and ebook.

Michael C Oryszak

Jun 2012 · Packt Publishing Ltd

About this ebook

Master SharePoint application development by building exciting SharePoint business solutions with this book and ebook.Key Features

• Instant SharePoint ñ Build nine exciting SharePoint business solutions
• Expand your knowledge of the SharePoint platform so that you can tailor the sample solutions to your requirements
• Learn how the different development techniques can be used in various situations to support both client side and server side development to solve different problems in different environments

Book DescriptionSharePoint is an incredibly powerful platform that can support a wide variety of business scenarios. In many cases it needs to be configured or extended in order to deliver fully featured business solutions. While some books merely talk about the capabilities of SharePoint in general and leave you to figure out how they apply to your situation, this book takes a different approach. Each chapter provides easy-to-understand, step-by-step instructions along with screenshots to help build exciting SharePoint business solutions that extend the platform. By the end of this book the reader will be a SharePoint developer to be reckoned with. This book will dive into a diverse set of real-world scenarios to deliver sample business solutions that can serve as the foundation for your own solutions. This book draws from the author's extensive experience with SharePoint to leverage the platforms underlying services to provide solutions that can support Social Collaboration, Content and Document Management, as well as project collaboration. Each chapter represents a new business solution that builds on the overall platform to deliver more complex solutions and more advanced techniques. By the end of the book the reader will understand how to leverage the SharePoint platform to build their own business solutions.What you will learn

• You will see how to build the following SharePoint projects:
• An Effective Intranet Site for your organization that maximizes the site s ability to aggregate content and is highly effective at communicating important messages
• A Workflow Out of Office Solution that allows users to manage their out of office dates and automate task assignments to a delegated resource
• A Company Forms Site with the definition of form content types and organizing the forms into a usable interface
• An Engaging Community Site including custom features that can be used to enhance collaboration and provide an information sharing system
• A Site Request and Provisioning System to help governance and compliance activities
• A Project Site Template to support project initiatives and track Issues, Tasks, and Contacts
• A Project Management Main Site that can aggregate the key metrics and status information from the project management sites previously created
• A Task Rollup solution that can aggregate tasks from the specified sites
• A dynamic Site Directory solution that leverages Search

Who this book is for

This book is for SharePoint developers, consultants, and administrators who want to build a range of SharePoint solutions that extend the SharePoint platform, and see how to apply the many available SharePoint features in different scenarios.

About the author

Mike Oryszak is a Consultant and Practice Manager with Intellinet, a Microsoft Gold-Certified Partner located in the South Eastern US. Mike works with customers to design and implement business solutions that leverage SharePoint as a platform. Mike is actively involved in the SharePoint community as the leader of the Triangle SharePoint User Group in Raleigh, NC as well as a frequent speaker at SharePoint events and conferences. Mike has been recognized for his community involvement as a three time Microsoft Valuable Professional (MVP) for SharePoint Server. When not working, Mike can be found at home with his family or off hiking the many trails in the mountains of western North Carolina. Mike can be reached at [e-mail] or through his blog at http://www.mikeoryszak.com.